You know, essentially when you do a play you're reinterpreting a work of art that already exists. That's not what happens with a movie.
Every single art form is involved in film, in a way.
With a movie you're creating from the beginning this particular work, let's not call it work of art, because very few movies are works of art, let's just call them bits of popular culture, whatever they are, sometimes very rarely by accident a movie ...
I mean, certainly it's the single biggest event, I think, in terms of popular entertainment, or art even, if you say that, of the 20th Century. It's been film. It's the 20th Century's real art form.
Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.
I would like to live forever in people's hearts and minds; that would be fun. I'll leave the world my art.
Self-censorship is a lie to yourself; if you are going to be trying to seriously create art, to create literary art, and you decide to hold back, to censor yourself, then you are a fool to yourself and it would be better that you kept your mouth shut...
In the experience of art, time seems not to exist.
All art began as sacred art, you know? I mean, all painting began as religious painting. All writing began as religious writing.
Art for art's sake, money for God's sake.
Every model is a living sculpture - art in-vivo.
I think great art is always ambiguous and can't be pinned down.
When I got into art school, I thought it was paradise. I wanted to be an artist so much that I was really driven and nothing could stop me.
For me, art is such a wide concept - anything can be art.
The art of reading between the lines is as old as manipulated information.
Art is not in some far-off place. A work of art is the expression of a man's whole personality, sensibility and ability.
The default mode of modern writing about art is to despise any notion of singularity as so much overheated genius-fetishism.
The best advice on the art of being happy is about as easy to follow as advice to be well when one is sick.
Norway is a small country, about half the size of Sweden, but it has a very good film climate because they have municipal cinemas, so even in the smallest towns you have a cinema that shows art house films from all over the world.
Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos.
The fact is popular art dates. It grows quaint. How many people feel strongly about Gilbert and Sullivan today compared to those who felt strongly in 1890?
